HÉRAULT. Signed letter from Jacques de CASTELNAU, bishop of - Lot 22

HÉRAULT. Signed letter from Jacques de CASTELNAU, bishop of SAINT-PONS, for the purchase of his wine supply (September 25, 1577) "Procureur vous m'avez fait grand plaisir de me donner avis de l'état de mes affaires de par-delà ... je vous prie m'acheter et arrher vingt pipes de vin de Gaillac à savoir dix de blanc et dix de clairet que je payerai et en fera apporter étant par-delà...." (Jacques de Castelnau de Clermont-Lodève (died September 11, 1586) was an ecclesiastic who was Bishop of Saint-Pons-de-Thomières from 1539 to 1586. Jacques de Castelnau was the son of Pierre, Seigneur de Clermont-Lodève, Lieutenant du Roi en Languedoc, and Marguerite de La Tour. His brother Guy was Seneschal of Carcassonne. He obtained the Diocese of Saint Pons when his uncle, Cardinal François Guillaume, resigned it in his favor.